Quote from NoDoji:
You can have an edge but not trust the edge. It's human nature to want certainty, and in trading there is no certainty whatsoever. Even strict risk management goes out the window during a black swan event, a technical hardware/internet issue that disconnects you from your trade management, a platform issue, etc., though these shouldn't be happening so frequently or with such leverage that they endanger your core trading edge over time.
If you have an edge and have learned to trust your edge, there isn't all that much anxiety.
"have learned to trust your edge"
Hard to believe that once you've invested the necessary sweat equity to define a decent edge the real journey has just begun.
RN knows, listen to him. He may remember a PM I sent him a long time ago after I'd found an edge, yet struggled constantly with all the stupid crap Mark Douglas details ad nauseam in his Book "Trading in the Zone".
I believe I asked RN something along the lines of "once you have a plan together is it possible to have no losing days?" I asked this because when I did my after-the-fact analysis each day, it was clear that if I traded all the setups within the parameters of my plan and followed a set of strict rules, I'd have almost no losing days. His reply to me (pretty much, "yes, it's possible") set me on the right path. I simply trusted him and realized that a true professional aims for perfection in execution, not perfection in end result. As a result of this attitude, the positive end result follows naturally.
